Panasonic has announced its portable platform: the Jungle, signaling the return of Panasonic to the gaming market since the much loved and much despised 3DO. Looking like a cross between a Nintendo DS and a netbook, the Jungle will have a full QWERTY keyboard and twin touch pads for control with.

Not willing to take on the DS or PSP battle just yet, Panasonic is promoting the Jungle as a machine for MMO players with their first title being a Battlestar Galactica MMO.

Here is a really sharp ActionScript 3 class that creates a quick way to make a fun promotional or interactive scratch off effect.

Much like the rub off effect used on lottery tickets and sweepstakes, with this class you can add in your image and then have your website visitors interact with the page to reveal the hidden message, image, video, link, or promotion that is underneath.

Ever look at your WordPress page in Firebug and notice that jQuery is sometimes loaded more than once Have you ever tried to use the Google jQuery content delivery network to improve page load speeds only to be thwarted by a second jQuery file that cannot be found inside your header.php file?

While we loved using the Simple HTML DOM PHP class provided here, we wanted to use it on our CakePHP sites as well. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we decided to port the Simple HTML DOM parser (which uses a delightful jQuery-like DOM element filter) into CakePHP!

On top of that, we even added in the ability to use the PHP cURL library instead of the default file_get_contents() calls. Take a look at the ease of use in our Simple HTML DOM baked CakePHP component.

XML structure makes encourages simplicity and usability with strong Unicode support (to use the myriad languages of the world). XML is created for documents, but it is extended into arbitrary data structures, file centric database organization, and even web services.

Vindictus – it’s free, built using Source, and has a great story The battles never end, the rain never ends, and nothing ever grows in this land. “Rain falls, yet the land is barren, as if the earth has been Read more…

The time has come for another new phone device! Sony SVP Peter Dille recently mentioned that the PSP isn’t equal in strength or ease as it’s larger relative, the PS3, saying, “I don’t think we fully realize that vision with Read more…